Bangladesh’s missing billions, stolen in plain sight | FT Film

An estimated $234bn was allegedly plundered from Bangladesh during Sheikh Hasina's 15-year reign as prime minister. The FT talks to protesters, politicians, business people and experts about how the money was taken out of the country and what - if anything - can be done to get it back.

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00:00 - Introduction
00:59 - The fall of Sheikh Hasina
03:30 - Whitechapel - the centre of UK's Bangladeshi disapora
04:13 - London - a global centre for corrupt money
04:51 - Investigation into Tulip Siddiq
07:15 - Investigation into Saifuzzaman Chowdhury's property empire
08:22 - Bangladesh under Sheikh Hasina
09:56 - The Hall of Mirrors
10:17 - The banking takeover
12:27 - Siphoning money out of Bangladesh
15:23 - The interim government
16:51 - S Alam and the banking crisis
17:33 - Politics and the prospect of elections in 2026
18:35 - Recovering the money
20:03 - Bangladesh's future prospects

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